Cheney, John Vance

[1848-1922]

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Born at Groveland, New York, December 29, 1848. Received his early education
at Temple Hill Academy in Geneseo, New York. After a short period
of teaching and of practicing law, he became the librarian
of the Free Public Library of San Francisco and held this position
from 1887 to 1894, when he accepted a similar one at the Newberry Library
in Chicago, where he remained until 1899. Since that date
he has resided in California, where he devotes his time to literary work.
His volumes of poetry are: "Thistle Drift", 1887; "Woodblooms", 1888;
"Out of the Silence", 1897; "Lyrics", 1901; "Poems", 1905;
"The Time of Roses", 1908; "At the Silver Gate", 1911.